Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stepovich, "a fellow doesn't quite realize, right after his election or appointment to such a job, just how much it means. People say hello, everything's gay and fine. And then comes that time-the time when you know you're going to have to stop just showing your teeth and start producing." Mike started producing right after his inauguration in June 1957. Says Matilda, who calls him "Mali" (Slavic for "little boy"): "When we were living in Fairbanks and Mali was practicing law, the jacket pocket on every one of his suits used...
...provide a dollar prop for Chile's sagging peso, hard hit by a world slump in copper prices. Last week the peso was so shaky (off from 493 to the dollar to 780 at the free-trade rate since April, 1956) that Chileans were forced to stop all imports from the U.S. by ordering importers, before taking delivery, to deposit 10,000% of the import item's value in an escrow account for 90 days...
Seconds for Cash. Jimmy Bryan had an edge in both. His pit crew never kept him off the track more than 35 seconds at a stop. He drifted into curves and tore down the straightaways with the same swift talent that had won him the national driving championship three years in the last four. He fought the wheel with the husky skill that helped him last through the 1954 race after his shock absorbers and springs collapsed, and his whole body was bruised and bleeding from pounding of the bricks...
Written with spare and simple candor, the book is much more than a scalding footnote to fever-hot headlines. The Question does not stop with the Algerian question but goes on to ask: What does it mean to be a human being? It tells of the shame and glory of man. At the outset, "Alleg's inquisitors were as cocksure in their cynicism as in their brutality. They believed that just as every man is said to have his price, so every man has his breaking point. "You're going to talk! Everybody talks here!" they told...
...Josephine's château at Malmaison, Napoleon (a very bad shot) delighted in shooting at the Empress' swans to torment her. When in good spirits, he would slap Josephine on the shoulders while she begged, "Do stop it, do stop it, Bonaparte." Josephine's maid, Mlle. Avrillon, recalled, "We could estimate the degree of his good humor by how much he hurt us. One day when he was obviously better pleased than usual, he pinched my cheek so hard I could not repress a scream...